Shakespeare's
Knowledge
and Use of the Bible.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04
Translator of romances into verse.
See Collier's
Illustrations of Old English Literature, 1866.
Robert Smith's Strange Lamentable and Tragical Histories. Trans. from
French. 1577.
Satire Ménippée. A pleasant Satyre or Poesie, wherein is discovered the
Catholicon of Spain, etc. 1595.
Twyne, Lawrence (ft. 1576). Patterne of Painefull Adventures. 1576,
c. 1595, 1607. [One of the sources of Pericles. ]
AUTHORITIES.
Ascham, Roger. The Scholemaster. 1570.
Cunliffe, J. W. The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy. 1893.
Einstein, Lewis. The Italian Renaissance in England. 1902.
Farmer, Richard. An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare. 1767.
Hall, Bishop. See bibliography to chap. XVI.
Harris, W. J. The First Printed Translations into English of the Great
Foreign Classics. n. d. (1909. ]
Harvey, Gabriel. Correspondence with Spenser. 1579-80.
Herford, C. H. Studies in the Literary Relations of England and Germany
in the Sixteenth Century. 1886.
Elizabethan Sonnets, with an introduction by Sidney Lee. 1904.
Meres, Francis. Palladis Tamia. 1598.
Moss, J. W. A Manual of Classical Bibliography. 1824.
Nashe, Thomas, The Works of. Ed. McKerrow, R. B. 1904 ff.
Puttenham, George [? ]. The Arte of English Poesie. 1589.
Scott, M. A. Elizabethan translations from the Italian: the titles of such
works now first collected and arranged, with annotations. Mod. Lang.
Ass. of America, vols. X, XI, XIII, XIV.
Smith, G. Gregory (ed. ). Elizabethan Critical Essays. 1904.
Snell, F. J. The Age of Transition. Vol. 11. 1905.
Ancient Translations from Classic Authors. Drawn up by Steevens and
printed in Malone's Prolegomena to Shakespeare. 1790.
Tucker, T. G. The Foreign Debt of English Literature. 1907.
Underhill, John Garrett. Spanish Literature in the England of the Tudors.
1899.
Upham, A. H. The French Influence in English Literature from the
Accession of Elizabeth to the Restoration. ew York, 1909.
Webbe, William. A discourse of English Poetrie. 1586.
Whibley, C. Literary Portraits. 1904. [Montaigne, etc. )
CHAPTER II
THE AUTHORISED VERSION AND ITS INFLUENCE
[See bibliographies to volume II, chapter II, and volume 111, chapter IIL
The following works may, also, be mentioned here. ]
Authorised Version. The Translators' Preface.
Caxton, William. The Golden Legend. Ed. Ellis, F. S. 7 vols. 1900 ff.
Cheyne, T. K. and Black, J. S. Encyclopaedia Biblica. 1899 ff.
Cook, A. S. The Bible and English Prose Style. Boston, 1892.
Biblical Quotations in Old English Prose Writers. 1898.
The Christ of Cynewulf. Boston, 1900. Albion Series.
E. L. IV.
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Gardiner, J. H. The Bible as English Literature. 1906.
Gasquet, F. A. The Old English Bible and other Essays. 1897.
Halsey, L. J. The Literary Attractions of the Bible. 1889.
Hastings, J. Dictionary of the Bible. Edinburgh, 1898 ff.
Konig, E. Stilistik, Rhetorik, Poetik in Bezug auf die biblische Litteratur.
Leipzig, 1900.
Lightfoot, J. B. On a fresh Revision of the English New Testament. 1871.
New York, 1873.
Loftie, W. J. A Century of Bibles or the Authorised Version from 1611 to
1711. 1872.
MacCulloch, J. M. Literary Characteristics of the Holy Scriptures. 1845.
Marsh, G. P. Lectures on the English Language. New York, 1863.
Mombert, J. I. English Versions of the Bible. 1907.
Moulton, R. G. The Literary Study of the Bible. 1899.
The Modern Reader's Bible. The books of the Bible with three books
of the Apocrypha presented in modern literary form. 1907.
Petty, W. T. An Essay upon the influence of the translation of the Bible
upon English Literature. 1830.
Prothero, R. E. The Psalms in Human Life. 1903.
Revised Version. The Revisers' Preface.
Scrivener, F. H. A. The Authorised Edition of the English Bible, 1611, its
subsequent reprints and modern representatives. Cambridge, 1884.
Westcott, B. F. A General View of the History of the English Bible. Rev.
by Aldis Wright, W. 1905.
Wordsworth, C.
Shakespeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible. 1864, etc.
Wright, W. Aldis (ed. ). The Authorised Version of the English Bible,
1611. 5 vols. Cambridge English Classics. 1909. [A literal reprint,
with a list of variations between the two issues of 1611. ]
CHAPTER III
SIR WALTER RALEGH
[Students should consult the second edition of Dr Brushfield's admirable
bibliography (see below). It is quite indispensable. The writer of this
chapter and the editors of the History are much indebted to Dr
Brushfield for kindly placing his work at their disposal in respect of
some of the entries in the following brief list. ]
Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations by. . . Sir Walter Raleigh upon
(a) The first Invention of Shipping.
(6) The Misery of Invasive Warre.
(c) The Navy Rouall and Sea-Service.
(d) Apologie for his voyage to Guiana. Portrait. 1650, 1667.
Remains of Sir Walter Ralegh. 1651, 1656, 1657 ff.
The title of the 1651 edition is Sir Walter Raleigh's Sceptick or Specula-
tions. And Observations of the Magnificency and Opulency of Cities, his
Seat of Government And Letters to the King's Majestie, and others of
Qualitie. Also his Demeanor before his Execution.
The title of the 1656 edition is Maxims of State. With instructions to his
Son, and the Son's advice to his aged Father. Whereunto is added Observa-
tions touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollander and other Nations,
Proving that our Sea and Land Commodities inrich and strengthen other
Countries against our own.
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451
The Remains include the following articles, but some are omitted in
certain editions :
Maxims of State.
Advice to his Son: his Son's advice to his Father.
Observations concerning the magnificency and opulency of Cities.
Seat of Government.
Observations concerning Trade and Commerce with the Hollander.
Poems.
Speech immediately before he was beheaded.
Letters to divers persons of quality (in all eds. ).
The Prerogative of Parliaments.
The edition of 1657 is the first that bears the title, Remains of Sir Walter
Raleigh.
Three discourses of Sr. Walter Ralegh:
I. Of a War with Spain and our Protecting the Netherlands.
II. Of the Original and Fundamental Cause of . . . War.
III. Of Ecclesiastical Power.
Published by Phillip Ralegh, Esq. , his only Grandson. 1702.
The Works of Sir Walter Raleigh, Kt. , Political, Commercial, and Philo-
sophical; together with his Letters and Poems. The whole never before
collected together, and some never yet printed, to which is prefix'd a
new account of his Life by Tho. Birch. 2 vols. Portrait. 1751.
The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt. , now first collected; to which are
prefixed the Lives of the Author, by Oldys and Birch. Oxford, 1829. 8 vols.
* Apologie for his voyage to Guiana. 1650.
1 The Discoverie of the large, rich and bewtiful Empyre of Guiana, with a
relation of the Great and Golden Citie of Manoa (which the Spanyards
call El Dorado) And of the Provinces of Emeria, Arromaia, Amapaia,
and other countries, with their rivers adjoyning. 4to. 1596. Reprinted
in Hakluyt's Voyages, III (1598). See also Voyages of the Elizabethan
Seamen, ed. Payne, E. J. , 1880. Ed. Schomburgk, Sir R. H. (Hakluyt
Society, vol. for 1848), with copious notes, a life of Ralegh and some
hitherto unpublished documents.
A Discourse of Sea Ports; principally of the Port and Haven of Dover. 1700.
Reprinted in Harleian Miscellany, Iv (1744), x (1810).
ted A Discourse of Tenures, which were before the Conquest. Gutch, J. , Collec-
tanea Curiosa. 1781.
An Essay on Ways and Means to maintain the Honour and Safety of
England, to encrease Trade, etc. 1701.
beint? The History of the World. In Five Bookes. 1614. Licensed to Walter
Burre, 15 April 1611. (For later editions see Brushfield. ) The History
of the World in five books. By Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt. , printed from
a copy revis'd by himself. To which is prefixed the Life of the Author,
newly compil'd from Materials more ample and authentick than have
yet been publish'd; by Mr Oldys. Also his Trial, with some Additions :
together with A new and more copious Index. 2 vols. Folio. 1736.
An Abridgment of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World. In five
books. To which is added
(a) His Premonition to Princes.
(6) Of the first invention of shipping.
(c) A Relation of the Action at Cadiz.
(d) A Dialogue between a Jesuite and a Recusant.
(e) An Apology for his unlucky Voyage to Guiana.
Publish'd by Phillip Raleigh. 1698 ff.
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The Interest of England with regard to foreign alliances, explained in two
Discourses. I. Concerning a Match propounded by the Savoyan between
the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piemont. II. Touching a
Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy.
By Sir Walter Rawleigh, Knt. 1750.
An Introduction to a Breviary of the History of England, with the Reign of
King William the I entitled the Conqueror. 1693. (It is very uncertain
whether this is by Ralegh. )
Observations, touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollander, and other
Nations, as it was presented to K. James. 1653.
The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh now first collected. With a Biographical
and Critical Introduction: by Sir Egerton Brydges. 1813, 1814.
Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others. Edited by
John Hannah. 1845, etc. See also Hannah's Courtly Poets, 1870, etc.
The Prerogative of Parliaments in England Proved in a Dialogue (pro and
contra) betweene a Councellour of State and a Justice of Peace.
4to. Midelburge, 1628; Hamburgh, 1628. Reprinted in all editions of
the Remains from 1657.
The Prince, or Maxims of State. Written by Sir Walter Rawley, and pre-
sented to Prince Henry. 1672.
A Report of the truth of the fight about the Isles of Acores, this last Sommer.
Betwixt the Revenge, one of her Majesties Shippes, and an Armada of
the King of Spaine. 4to. 1591. Reprinted in Hakluyt's Voyages (1598-
60), Pinkerton's Voyages (1808), Somers's Collection of Tracts (1809)
and in English Reprints by Arber, E.
To-day a man, To-morrow none: or Sir Walter Rawleigh's Farewell to his
dy, the night before hee was beheaded. Together with his advice con-
cerning Her and her Sonne. 1644. Reprinted in Ashbee's Occasional. . .
Reprints (in facsimile), No. 26, 1872; in the Old Book Collector's
Miscellany, by Hindley, C. (1873), etc.
Brushfield, T. N. Bibliography of Sir Walter Ralegh. Exeter. Second ed.
with notes revised and enlarged. 1908.
Buchan, John. Sir Walter Raleigh. Oxford, 1897.
Cayley, A. The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh. 2 vols. 1805.
Creighton, Louise. Life of Sir Walter Ralegh. 1877.
Edwards, Edward. The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, together with his letters
now first collected. 2 vols. 1868.
Gosse, Edmund. Raleigh. 1886.
Hennessy, Sir John Pope. Sir Walter Ralegh in Ireland. 1883.
Hume, Martin A. S. Sir Walter Raleigh. 1897.
Kingsley, C. Sir Walter Raleigh and his Time. 1880.
Rodd, Sir Rennell. Sir Walter Raleigh. 1904.
St John, James Augustus. Life of Sir Walter Raleigh. 1868.
Selincourt, H. de. Great Ralegh. 1908.
Stebbing, William. Sir Walter Ralegh.
Illustrations of Old English Literature, 1866.
Robert Smith's Strange Lamentable and Tragical Histories. Trans. from
French. 1577.
Satire Ménippée. A pleasant Satyre or Poesie, wherein is discovered the
Catholicon of Spain, etc. 1595.
Twyne, Lawrence (ft. 1576). Patterne of Painefull Adventures. 1576,
c. 1595, 1607. [One of the sources of Pericles. ]
AUTHORITIES.
Ascham, Roger. The Scholemaster. 1570.
Cunliffe, J. W. The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy. 1893.
Einstein, Lewis. The Italian Renaissance in England. 1902.
Farmer, Richard. An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare. 1767.
Hall, Bishop. See bibliography to chap. XVI.
Harris, W. J. The First Printed Translations into English of the Great
Foreign Classics. n. d. (1909. ]
Harvey, Gabriel. Correspondence with Spenser. 1579-80.
Herford, C. H. Studies in the Literary Relations of England and Germany
in the Sixteenth Century. 1886.
Elizabethan Sonnets, with an introduction by Sidney Lee. 1904.
Meres, Francis. Palladis Tamia. 1598.
Moss, J. W. A Manual of Classical Bibliography. 1824.
Nashe, Thomas, The Works of. Ed. McKerrow, R. B. 1904 ff.
Puttenham, George [? ]. The Arte of English Poesie. 1589.
Scott, M. A. Elizabethan translations from the Italian: the titles of such
works now first collected and arranged, with annotations. Mod. Lang.
Ass. of America, vols. X, XI, XIII, XIV.
Smith, G. Gregory (ed. ). Elizabethan Critical Essays. 1904.
Snell, F. J. The Age of Transition. Vol. 11. 1905.
Ancient Translations from Classic Authors. Drawn up by Steevens and
printed in Malone's Prolegomena to Shakespeare. 1790.
Tucker, T. G. The Foreign Debt of English Literature. 1907.
Underhill, John Garrett. Spanish Literature in the England of the Tudors.
1899.
Upham, A. H. The French Influence in English Literature from the
Accession of Elizabeth to the Restoration. ew York, 1909.
Webbe, William. A discourse of English Poetrie. 1586.
Whibley, C. Literary Portraits. 1904. [Montaigne, etc. )
CHAPTER II
THE AUTHORISED VERSION AND ITS INFLUENCE
[See bibliographies to volume II, chapter II, and volume 111, chapter IIL
The following works may, also, be mentioned here. ]
Authorised Version. The Translators' Preface.
Caxton, William. The Golden Legend. Ed. Ellis, F. S. 7 vols. 1900 ff.
Cheyne, T. K. and Black, J. S. Encyclopaedia Biblica. 1899 ff.
Cook, A. S. The Bible and English Prose Style. Boston, 1892.
Biblical Quotations in Old English Prose Writers. 1898.
The Christ of Cynewulf. Boston, 1900. Albion Series.
E. L. IV.
29
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Gardiner, J. H. The Bible as English Literature. 1906.
Gasquet, F. A. The Old English Bible and other Essays. 1897.
Halsey, L. J. The Literary Attractions of the Bible. 1889.
Hastings, J. Dictionary of the Bible. Edinburgh, 1898 ff.
Konig, E. Stilistik, Rhetorik, Poetik in Bezug auf die biblische Litteratur.
Leipzig, 1900.
Lightfoot, J. B. On a fresh Revision of the English New Testament. 1871.
New York, 1873.
Loftie, W. J. A Century of Bibles or the Authorised Version from 1611 to
1711. 1872.
MacCulloch, J. M. Literary Characteristics of the Holy Scriptures. 1845.
Marsh, G. P. Lectures on the English Language. New York, 1863.
Mombert, J. I. English Versions of the Bible. 1907.
Moulton, R. G. The Literary Study of the Bible. 1899.
The Modern Reader's Bible. The books of the Bible with three books
of the Apocrypha presented in modern literary form. 1907.
Petty, W. T. An Essay upon the influence of the translation of the Bible
upon English Literature. 1830.
Prothero, R. E. The Psalms in Human Life. 1903.
Revised Version. The Revisers' Preface.
Scrivener, F. H. A. The Authorised Edition of the English Bible, 1611, its
subsequent reprints and modern representatives. Cambridge, 1884.
Westcott, B. F. A General View of the History of the English Bible. Rev.
by Aldis Wright, W. 1905.
Wordsworth, C.
Shakespeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible. 1864, etc.
Wright, W. Aldis (ed. ). The Authorised Version of the English Bible,
1611. 5 vols. Cambridge English Classics. 1909. [A literal reprint,
with a list of variations between the two issues of 1611. ]
CHAPTER III
SIR WALTER RALEGH
[Students should consult the second edition of Dr Brushfield's admirable
bibliography (see below). It is quite indispensable. The writer of this
chapter and the editors of the History are much indebted to Dr
Brushfield for kindly placing his work at their disposal in respect of
some of the entries in the following brief list. ]
Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations by. . . Sir Walter Raleigh upon
(a) The first Invention of Shipping.
(6) The Misery of Invasive Warre.
(c) The Navy Rouall and Sea-Service.
(d) Apologie for his voyage to Guiana. Portrait. 1650, 1667.
Remains of Sir Walter Ralegh. 1651, 1656, 1657 ff.
The title of the 1651 edition is Sir Walter Raleigh's Sceptick or Specula-
tions. And Observations of the Magnificency and Opulency of Cities, his
Seat of Government And Letters to the King's Majestie, and others of
Qualitie. Also his Demeanor before his Execution.
The title of the 1656 edition is Maxims of State. With instructions to his
Son, and the Son's advice to his aged Father. Whereunto is added Observa-
tions touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollander and other Nations,
Proving that our Sea and Land Commodities inrich and strengthen other
Countries against our own.
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1
Chapter III
le
451
The Remains include the following articles, but some are omitted in
certain editions :
Maxims of State.
Advice to his Son: his Son's advice to his Father.
Observations concerning the magnificency and opulency of Cities.
Seat of Government.
Observations concerning Trade and Commerce with the Hollander.
Poems.
Speech immediately before he was beheaded.
Letters to divers persons of quality (in all eds. ).
The Prerogative of Parliaments.
The edition of 1657 is the first that bears the title, Remains of Sir Walter
Raleigh.
Three discourses of Sr. Walter Ralegh:
I. Of a War with Spain and our Protecting the Netherlands.
II. Of the Original and Fundamental Cause of . . . War.
III. Of Ecclesiastical Power.
Published by Phillip Ralegh, Esq. , his only Grandson. 1702.
The Works of Sir Walter Raleigh, Kt. , Political, Commercial, and Philo-
sophical; together with his Letters and Poems. The whole never before
collected together, and some never yet printed, to which is prefix'd a
new account of his Life by Tho. Birch. 2 vols. Portrait. 1751.
The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt. , now first collected; to which are
prefixed the Lives of the Author, by Oldys and Birch. Oxford, 1829. 8 vols.
* Apologie for his voyage to Guiana. 1650.
1 The Discoverie of the large, rich and bewtiful Empyre of Guiana, with a
relation of the Great and Golden Citie of Manoa (which the Spanyards
call El Dorado) And of the Provinces of Emeria, Arromaia, Amapaia,
and other countries, with their rivers adjoyning. 4to. 1596. Reprinted
in Hakluyt's Voyages, III (1598). See also Voyages of the Elizabethan
Seamen, ed. Payne, E. J. , 1880. Ed. Schomburgk, Sir R. H. (Hakluyt
Society, vol. for 1848), with copious notes, a life of Ralegh and some
hitherto unpublished documents.
A Discourse of Sea Ports; principally of the Port and Haven of Dover. 1700.
Reprinted in Harleian Miscellany, Iv (1744), x (1810).
ted A Discourse of Tenures, which were before the Conquest. Gutch, J. , Collec-
tanea Curiosa. 1781.
An Essay on Ways and Means to maintain the Honour and Safety of
England, to encrease Trade, etc. 1701.
beint? The History of the World. In Five Bookes. 1614. Licensed to Walter
Burre, 15 April 1611. (For later editions see Brushfield. ) The History
of the World in five books. By Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt. , printed from
a copy revis'd by himself. To which is prefixed the Life of the Author,
newly compil'd from Materials more ample and authentick than have
yet been publish'd; by Mr Oldys. Also his Trial, with some Additions :
together with A new and more copious Index. 2 vols. Folio. 1736.
An Abridgment of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World. In five
books. To which is added
(a) His Premonition to Princes.
(6) Of the first invention of shipping.
(c) A Relation of the Action at Cadiz.
(d) A Dialogue between a Jesuite and a Recusant.
(e) An Apology for his unlucky Voyage to Guiana.
Publish'd by Phillip Raleigh. 1698 ff.
ite
lotte
à
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## p. 452 (#474) ############################################
452
Bibliography
The Interest of England with regard to foreign alliances, explained in two
Discourses. I. Concerning a Match propounded by the Savoyan between
the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piemont. II. Touching a
Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy.
By Sir Walter Rawleigh, Knt. 1750.
An Introduction to a Breviary of the History of England, with the Reign of
King William the I entitled the Conqueror. 1693. (It is very uncertain
whether this is by Ralegh. )
Observations, touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollander, and other
Nations, as it was presented to K. James. 1653.
The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh now first collected. With a Biographical
and Critical Introduction: by Sir Egerton Brydges. 1813, 1814.
Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others. Edited by
John Hannah. 1845, etc. See also Hannah's Courtly Poets, 1870, etc.
The Prerogative of Parliaments in England Proved in a Dialogue (pro and
contra) betweene a Councellour of State and a Justice of Peace.
4to. Midelburge, 1628; Hamburgh, 1628. Reprinted in all editions of
the Remains from 1657.
The Prince, or Maxims of State. Written by Sir Walter Rawley, and pre-
sented to Prince Henry. 1672.
A Report of the truth of the fight about the Isles of Acores, this last Sommer.
Betwixt the Revenge, one of her Majesties Shippes, and an Armada of
the King of Spaine. 4to. 1591. Reprinted in Hakluyt's Voyages (1598-
60), Pinkerton's Voyages (1808), Somers's Collection of Tracts (1809)
and in English Reprints by Arber, E.
To-day a man, To-morrow none: or Sir Walter Rawleigh's Farewell to his
dy, the night before hee was beheaded. Together with his advice con-
cerning Her and her Sonne. 1644. Reprinted in Ashbee's Occasional. . .
Reprints (in facsimile), No. 26, 1872; in the Old Book Collector's
Miscellany, by Hindley, C. (1873), etc.
Brushfield, T. N. Bibliography of Sir Walter Ralegh. Exeter. Second ed.
with notes revised and enlarged. 1908.
Buchan, John. Sir Walter Raleigh. Oxford, 1897.
Cayley, A. The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh. 2 vols. 1805.
Creighton, Louise. Life of Sir Walter Ralegh. 1877.
Edwards, Edward. The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, together with his letters
now first collected. 2 vols. 1868.
Gosse, Edmund. Raleigh. 1886.
Hennessy, Sir John Pope. Sir Walter Ralegh in Ireland. 1883.
Hume, Martin A. S. Sir Walter Raleigh. 1897.
Kingsley, C. Sir Walter Raleigh and his Time. 1880.
Rodd, Sir Rennell. Sir Walter Raleigh. 1904.
St John, James Augustus. Life of Sir Walter Raleigh. 1868.
Selincourt, H. de. Great Ralegh. 1908.
Stebbing, William. Sir Walter Ralegh.
